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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

both elements compatible with the true faith and also interpretations that
appear to have gradually been distorted over the course of time.
Certain symbolic descriptions in the Kabbalah have led people
throughout the course of history to produce different interpretations of it.
The best-known of these is the idea that students of the Kabbalah engage
in sorcery. It is true that various people who engaged in magic also took a
close interest in the Kabbalah, but this should not give rise to the miscon-
ception that the Kabbalah is a book of sorcery. One of the main reasons for
the emergence of this claim is that leading rabbis have kept some of the in-
formation contained in the Kabbalah secret. This gave rise to suspicion
and misinterpretation in other communities. The symbols that dominate
the Kabbalah in general also helped reinforce this idea. The Masons acted
in the light of this conception that spread among some Jews and made the
mistake of thinking that their own false systems could rule the world by
the use of the symbols and descriptions in the Kabbalah, assumed to pro-
vide secret information.
Naturally, these misconceptions, and the behavior of some Jews and
the secret plans of the Masons based on those misconceptions, cannot be
laid at the door of Jewish society as a whole. No matter how much some of
their beliefs and practices may have been corrupted over the course of
time, the Jews are society whom Allah has revealed to be People of the
Book, who believe in the Prophets Abraham, Solomon, David, Jacob,
Joseph, Moses and all the other blessed prophets sent to them as messen-
gers (peace be upon them all), who believe in Allah and subscribe to moral
values also contained in the true faith. The Muslim view of the Jews is
based on compassion, affection and understanding, in line with the moral
values of the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet (may Allah bless him
and grant him peace). Indeed, Allah reveals in one verse of the Qur’an
how Muslims should call to the People of the Book:

Say, “People of the Book! Come to a proposition which is the same for
us and you – that we should worship none but Allah and not associate
any partners with Him and not take one another as lords besides
Allah.” … (Surah Al ‘Imran: 64)

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